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Originally Posted by OpenSights
Is there a particular time that best for rabbits??
Day break, afternoon or does it matter?
I have the same issue lots of sign but no sightings...
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First and last light of the day are best.
Depending on how much predation they are facing, they may not move until well after dark or you might see them out and about well into daylight hours.
The smaller the species the more nocturnal it is likely to be. I've seen Jackrabbits in Edmonton in the middle of the day but I've only seen one Cottontail during daylight hours in my whole life.
Up here, the more predators there are, the less Snowshoe Hare I see.
When there are a lot of big Owls and lots of Coyote, I only see Snowshoes well after dark.
Where there are few Coyote Fox and Owls I see them out in the open well into daylight hours.
I used to hunt and snare them a lot when I was young. I'd find them in the heaviest tangles mid day only when they were white and the ground free of snow. Otherwise I'd see them just at dusk, or dead in one of my snares.
Even when they were so plentiful that they were eating the seats in the old outhouse, I still wasn't seeing them during daylight hours.
But go out to the barn after dark and it was like flies on a dead carcass.